Waters: Part 2 - Dark May

May 3rd

Unknown Place

W turns on the lights and both men look at each other. They are inside a small attic filled with boxes. W looks behind and sees the door he approached seconds before is made of steel. Then, he looks at a thin, hoary man with wrinkled grey skin and the old man looks at W, a yellow-skinned young man with brown hair who only has jeans and a black t-shirt with the drawing of his cutie mark, an unmade bed. His characteristic brown trenchcoat and silver earring on his left ear are gone. W touches his ear and looks at his torso. "No! My earring! My trenchcoat!"

The old man's eyes are now shining... "You..."

"Where are we?" says W. "This isn't Sandy Suburbs..."

"You..." keeps saying the old man while shaking.

"What?"

"Come... hug your grandpa."

W is now surprised while looking at the old man... which is his grandpa!... "Wilbur?"

His grandfather nods his head. "Yeah, my kid... come with me... I thought you were dead."

Both W and Wilbur hug each other, and then W tries to break the chain which is tying Wilbur to a metal pipe, but Wilbur says it is not necessary now. "Why? I need you free, grandpa! You can't be like this!"

Then, W looks at his right while crouching next to Wilbur. He looks that there is an opened small box which has a severed head. He approaches the box and gets the head out.

"That one is Ghetto, Seductive's worker," answers Wilbur. "He was the first one who was executed by the Cabaret."

"What?" says W. "The Cabaret?"

Wilbur laughs while trying not to cry. "Kid... we are in Petko's Cabaret, W... on Cabbage Town."

"Petko?" says W... and then he remembers what Discord told him minutes ago. Petko was on the victims' list. He was the first man Event mentioned. "Where is he?"

"Downstairs," says Wilbur. "But it is impossible to get him now... he has lots of men behind him now... today's the party."

"The party of what?"

"It's a party they always do every night... before the executions."

"Which executions?"

"Sit down," says Wilbur. "I need to explain it to you."

W sits down, next to Wilbur. "What do you have to explain to me?"

"Every night, before the party... a guy named Chalk comes with a couple of cards. A long time ago, there were sixteen guys here, you know... there was a card for each one of them... the one who grabbed the Ace of Spades... was the one who was going to be executed the next day."

"Sixteen guys?"

"Yeah... There was Tom Delight, Ron's brother, Commissioner Percival and his partner Femur, a kind guy named Chaz, also Ghetto... all of them were executed days before May 3rd... they were sent to Cabbage Park, and bang... they were riddled and then decapitated... Petko likes to show his victims' heads to everyone during the parties..."

"Fifteen men got killed..."

"And I am the last one," says W's grandpa. "Tomorrow is my death day."

"Tomorrow won't be your death day," says W. "I'll get you out of here and we'll kill Petko."

"No, W..." says Wilbur, laughing. "You don't have to cope with an old man now... you need to do your work..."

"Old man?" says W. "You are my grandpa, man! I'll get you out of here and both of us will save our friends..."

"I don't know where is Cosmos, Celestia and Luna's father, W..." answers Wilbur. "They separated us. I was sent here and he... I have no freaking idea."

"We'll save Cosmos, then," says W. "But first... we need to get out of here."

W tries to open the door but finds out it is locked. Meanwhile, the music is getting louder and louder and W listens to a voice who is getting nearer him.

"Come on! We will have so much fun here!"

"No! Please! Get off me, you sick fuck!"

W finds out the voices are in front of the door, trying to open it. He turns off the lights and hides behind the boxes.

Meanwhile, on La Lima...

Five cars stop behind Rushy's house on La Lima. Ten men get down from the five cars and look at Leritzko, who is behind them.

"That shout..." whispers Leritzko, while drawing a handgun. "I think it was Blaley. We've got to grab them."

"Be silent," says one of the men.

The ten men slowly move to the right while Leritzko goes to the left. He slowly opens his pocket and gets out of it a small box. He opens it and finds a pill with Verminium's magic. He slowly nods his head while smiling and puts it in his mouth.

On the other hand, Spike starts barking again and Rushy opens the fridge again while Jack and Abe are hiding behind the chairs and the table.

"Rushy, what the hell are you doing?" asks Jack.

"Just let me do the work, Jacko!" shouts Rushy, and then he gets Blaley's body out of the fridge and hides behind its door. Spike hides behind Jack and Abe while two of the ten men enter the house.

One of the henchmen fires to the fridge's door and Rushy comes out using Blaley's body as a shield and with his handgun. The rebel man kills one of them with a shot on his head and the second one tries to throw him down, but Abe comes out of his place and smashes his head against the fridge three times, leaving a bloodstain on the cold metal. At the same time, the third, the fourth and the fifth man enter the house. Abe grabs the second man's weapon and both Rushy and him kill two henchmen. Jack and Spike get up after being under the table and Jack grabs another handgun. Spike looks at him.

"What should I do?" says Spike.

"Hide," answers Jack.

"No! I want to do something!"

Spike runs and bites the fifth man's leg, distracting him and helping Jack, who kills the gangster with a gunshot. Suddenly, the five remaining men start firing from outside the house and the four crouch. The chairs, the table, a vodka bottle and also the fridge are now filled with holes and gunpowder. Seconds later, the roof automatically rises and the house's walls fall. Now, the four guys are looking at the five men around them and Leritzko, stretching his hand and with his nose bleeding. He is grabbing his head with his other hand.

"This is for Blaley!" shouts Leritzko, and throws Rushy away with his brand-new telekinetic powers which were obtained through the pill. The other three warriors are shocked... he has powers now!

Abe runs away while the other five men try to kill him, but suddenly Leritzko throws, with his powers, those five men to Abe. Jack and Spike take advantage of this and both of them try to go for Leritzko but soon they are also thrown away due to his powers.

One of the henchmen gets up and he is angry because he was thrown by Leritzko's powers, but soon Plegovich's worker kills the five men, breaking their necks with his magic. Rushy gets up and shoots his last four bullets, but all of them are just a miss. Abe comes back to help Rushy while Spike and Jack also get up and run to Leritzko, but the worker throws them away again.

Meanwhile, the citizens of La Lima are looking at the battle from inside their houses. Leritzko starts smashing the dead workers' bodies against Jack, Abe, Rushy and Spike. Eventually, Rushy and Abe get up again but they are thrown by Leritzko and crash onto a house with people inside. There are three junkies inside who look at their leader now.

"Hi, Rico..." says Rushy while trying to move. "I want to tell you something... remember plan B?"

Rico, one of the junkies, nods his head: "Yeah, but... are you sure?" he says. "That plan you told us before Blaley's arrival must have a reward because it's risky as fuck..."

Rushy raises his arm and touches the junkie's head. "Your freedom... is your reward if we get rid of this son of a bitch."

Rico looks at his friend from behind and asks: "Hey... where is the horn?"

A junkie grabs a small horn and blows it. Few citizens of La Lima come out while the others stay inside their houses, afraid of Leritzko's powers. On the other hand, Leritzko's skin is slowly fading into white and he is losing weight. His arms and legs almost look like bones and his nose and mouth are leaking blood. The powers are slowly killing him.

"You... You... Aaargh!" shouts Leritzko. "You won't..."

Those few citizens that came out from their houses start surrounding Leritzko and one of them stabs a kitchen knife on his back. After that, all of the citizens get out and start approaching the scene while others start kicking Leritzko's body on the floor. Another group of Lima's junkies grab the dead men's bodies and put them inside a big campfire. Rushy, Jack, Abe and Spike get inside the huge amount of people which is around Leritzko and look at what's happening. Plenty of junkies are now stabbing knives, kicking, punching and also shooting at Leritzko's body, who is almost dead. All of them are shouting two words, a sentence:

"FUCK PLEGOVICH! FUCK PLEGOVICH!"

All in all, La Lima is now a riot killing Leritzko and getting rid of Plegovich's dead men. Minutes later, the junkies grab Leritzko's destroyed corpse and put it inside the campfire. Another group of citizens grab lots and lots of bottles of gasoline and pour all of them on those bodies. While one of them lights a match and throws it to the bodies that will burn, the junkies start celebrating and laughing. Another group of junkies grab Rushy from behind and start hugging him, unstoppably.

"RUSHY'S OUR HERO! RUSHY'S OUR HERO! RUSHY'S OUR HERO!"

Jack, Abe and Spike look at the show. Dead bodies burning on a campfire, junkies celebrating and Rushy, in the middle of all the chaos, being hugged and kissed by junkies who are shouting his name. "Hey, hey, hey!" shouts Rushy. "I want to say something, fellas!" The junkies start celebrating again while a group of guys get out from their houses a small box with marshmallows. "Ok, ok, I'm about to say something... the plan worked... when that son of a bitch, Blaley, arrived at this freaking town, I told all of you... we were not a couple of stupid assholes, we were not junkies, we were not dogs!"

"Hey!" shouts Spike, angrily.

"Oh, sorry, Spike..." answers Rushy. "We were not the ones who worked for the motherfucker, THE MOTHERFUCKER WORKED FOR US!"

The citizens start clapping and shouting of joy, and Rushy keeps talking: "I said I was the leader of La Lima for a while, and I told you that we were tough enough to make a fucking riot on Main Street... AGAINST THOSE BITCHES!"

"RUSHY! RUSHY! RUSHY!" shout the citizens while some are eating marshmallows made by the human campfire, which is the main cause of a hideous, undescribable smell around the place. Spike smells it and gets shocked.

"What's that smell?..." he says. "I want... ugh... I want to throw up..."

Jack grabs Spike from the floor and covers his nose. "I wouldn't like to describe that smell to you..."

"And now...." keeps saying Rushy. "I want to say two things... only two... First of all, I would like you to thank my partners, those two men, that dog... if it wasn't for them, we would never have won or been the same!" The citizens now make a standing ovation to Jack, Abe and Spike before Rushy says his last phrase: "Now... secondly... I've set off a new mission for me... I'll go for Plegovich and his men... all of them... this will hurt for me but... I'll leave my hometown for a while..."

The citizens stop clapping and look at Rushy in shock. "No!" says a Lima citizen. "We'll go with you!"

"No..." says Rushy. "No. Please no."

"Why?" says another one. "All together we can kick his ass!"

"Plegovich will not look for you, guys... he will look for me. I don't want you to get inside this shit."

"But..."

"Guys..." says Rushy, sighing. "I know this is hard to understand but... since the day Plegovich brought Strict Proclamation down... La Lima hasn't been anything but fear... loneliness... cruelty. The only way we can get that shit out of our lungs is by bringing Plegovich down... and I'll be that man on a mission... I'll do it for you, guys. I don't want you to leave your life... to leave the city... to leave La Lima alone. I promise... I'll get rid of every single one of them. Every single fucking one of them... All in all, guys, I will leave my role as Lima's leader because of this mission... and you, all of you... ALL OF YOU!... will be the leader. Neither one nor two or three. Every one of you."

The citizens stay in silence for a while and everyone starts clapping, including Jack and Abe.

"THANK YOU, RUSHY!" says the men while Rushy hugs plenty of them and goes with Jack, Abe and Spike.

Rushy grabs Jack and Abe's faces and whispers: "I will accomplish my father and the old Alexei Ushin's wishes... we will get rid of that fucking madman."

Someone opens the attic's door and turns on the light. It is a fat beige-skinned man with white hair wearing black pants, shoes, a white shirt and a brown trenchcoat. W, while hiding in the boxes... recognizes that trenchcoat. It is his. He is also along with a familiar girl... Adagio Dazzle, the infamous leader of the Dazzlings. She is wearing only a red tight dress.

"Mr Wilbur!" shouts the old man. "Look at what I'm wearing tonight! The worst trenchcoat I've ever seen in my life!"

"Don't you dare, Chalk, to talk about my son's and grandson's trenchcoat."

"I mean..." says Chalk. "It is pretty neat but... it is dirty, ripped... besides, this brown colour looks like shit! It is shit! What do you think, baby?"

"Get off me! You son of a bitch!" shouts Adagio Dazzle and eventually, she pushes Chalk away but he grabs her by the neck and stomps her against the door.

"You little fucking bitch, don't you dare push me away! You may have been powerful on that Battle of the Bands thing, but I'm not a 16-year-old teenager! I'm an old gangster and I can kick your ass the way I want!"

"Stop, Chalk!" shouts Wilbur. "You're strangling her!"

W tries to resist his desires of killing Chalk at that right moment... but he can't. He is strangling an innocent woman, while having his old trenchcoat. "CHALK!" says his grandpa while getting up. "CHALK! PLEASE, YOU ARE KILLING HER!"

Adagio's face is now purple while Chalk is laughing. She tries to push him or kick him but she can't. Wilbur also wants to do something but he can't due to he is tied to a metal pipe. It all looks like Adagio's going to die, but suddenly something rises from the boxes and calls Chalk's attention. W, with his jeans and a black t-shirt with his cutie mark stampd on it, with no trenchcoat nor earring on his left ear, looks at Chalk with his evilest stare.

"Give me back my fucking trenchcoat," says W while looking to Chalk. The old man lets Adagio go and looks at W, shocked.

"What the?..." says Chalk, while struggling with his own words. "I thought... they killed you."

"I am more alive than you, you son of a bitch. Now give me back my trenchcoat," he says while getting out of the pile of boxes. Wilbur and Adagio look at the scene in shock and Chalk just chuckles.

"Oh... you want this piece of crap?"

"That piece of crap was my father's and also mine. You have two choices, give me that back or I'll take it from you."

Chalk laughs. "How are you going to do...?" but he is interrupted when Adagio gets up and kicks him in his balls. W grabs him and throws him away while Adagio closes the door. Chalk rises, now with a knife pointing right at W's head. "You stupid kid... I'm going to kill all of you! Your grandpa, that skank and you!"

"Skank?" shouts Adagio Dazzle and tries to go for him until W stops her.

"Go ahead," says W. "Do it."

"But... W!" shouts Wilbur.

"Do it," answers the Bedmaker. Chalk is about to stab the knife on his chest but suddenly he pushes Adagio and makes her trip over and crashes against Chalk. The knife ends up on the floor. Then, she starts punching her face while the old man tries to grab her and at one moment, she grabs his neck and strangles him.

"Get this!" shouts Adagio. "Get this! You sick... motherfucker... This is for trying to touch me and my sisters!"

Chalk's face turns purple and he tries to resist, but there is one moment Chalk stops moving and his eyes look to nowhere. "Stop," says W. "That's enough. You killed him."

"It's not enough!" she shouts while crying. "He tried to... separate me from my sisters! Treated me like garbage! I'm not garbage... I'm not... garbage!"

"It's OK..." W hugs Adagio and she starts crying on his shoulder. W turns around to look at his grandpa, who raises his shoulders. "It's OK..."

Wilbur hears footsteps near the door and someone knocks it.

"Hey, Chalk... hey!"

W instantly grabs Chalk's knife but Adagio grabs his arm. "Don't even think about it." Then, she wipes her face and slowly opens the door. "What?"

"Is he OK?" asks the henchman.

"Yes... why?"

"Um... I've heard shouts..."

"Oh... It was a small argument between Chalk and the man," she says, pointing at Wilbur. W hides with Chalk's body behind some boxes.

"Um... is it necessary to get rid of him now?"

Wilbur closes his eyes, ready to be killed. "No, no!" she says. "Chalk will get rid of him... it is not necessary for you..."

"Um... are you sure? Chalk, are you there? We can do it for you, man..."

The henchman tries to look inside, but Adagio does not let him. Suddenly, he realizes something's wrong.

"What the hell's happening here?" he pushes Adagio and looks that some boxes have fallen from its place and there is a huge pile of them in a corner. "What the?"

Adagio grabs him from behind, smashes his head against the metallic door and instantly closes it. The henchman falls to the floor while his head is bleeding. He's knocked out. Meanwhile, W gets up and grabs his trenchcoat from Chalk's body. Adagio grabs a key that was in the henchman's pocket and thinks about unlocking the chain.

"This one... would it be the key?" asks Adagio. "For him?"

"Grandson, leave me. It is not necessary... you will only have to..."

"Grandpa," says W, while holding the key and putting it inside the lock. "I will only have to save you... and kill all those bitches out there. I won't leave you here... never."

"But... I'm an old man."

"How lucky..." whispers W while unlocking the chain. "You may be an old man... but you are my grandpa."

Wilbur gets up but his legs hurt. He hasn't moved them for months, and that's why W helps him to move. "Where's Petko?" asks W to Adagio Dazzle.

"Downstairs," she answers.

"Great," says W, while approaching to the door and stepping on the knocked henchman.